>From: Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >You can use fdisk to delete or create logical drives in the >extended partition without damaging data in the primary >partition. That's what I had to do to make room for linux. I >started out with C:,D:,E:, and F:. I copied everything onto C:, >and deleted D:,E:, and F: then created a new 2GB D:, and left >the rest for linux. I then copied the stuff I had moved to C: >back to D:. The only problem I had was that Win95 still thinks >the CDROM is G: and it's now E: > only a side-note here... your problem with your cdrom-letter is easy to solve, go to the 'device manager', then select your cdrom in it and choose 'properties', here you should be able to change that cdrom-letter to G when trying to install, i always make sure the boot disk uses 'X' as cdrom-letter, afterwards i change the cdrom-letter to 'X' and have no trouble... i had the problem several times since i often play with my partitions... another hateful thing in win95 is the following... say you have a primary partition C, and then in the extended partition you have logical partitions D,E,F... well, suppose you add an extra harddrive... there you add a primary partition that windows recognizes.. what will it do? it will assign D to that partition and move the other partitions one letter up... very annoying 'cause many programs won't work anymore... unless you start changing lots of things.... anyone knows a solution for this ? (it has to be a primary partition, 'cause there's another win95 on it... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
